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A Million Years

If you think a million years is a long time, consider this, there is believed to be 3 zettabytes (a zettabyte is one billion trillion or 10²¹ bytes) of digital data stored in the world.  Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney, a couple of scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge, claim that by encoding and storing it in DNA they could theoretically fit all the information of the world in the back of a truck.


A drawback is that the cost would be over $10,000 per megabyte.  It is also slow to read and write, taking as long as a week to upload or download a song.  However, the cost is expected to drop significantly just as the speed will increase in the next decade as the technology is developed. 
 
One major advantage is that information stored in DNA has been known to survive for millions of years if kept in a cool, dark place, while most mass storage media today has a shelf life of less than 10 years.  Planning a million years into the future has extreme advantages for mankind and others.  If you lose a receipt or a phone bill, a million years from now it will still be there, waiting for you.
 
I am going to suggest that we put all the data in the world in a big glob of DNA and send it into space so that a long, long time from now (or ago) someone in another sector of space-time can read this article.  Hello distant star child, I wager you never thought you'd be reading this, did you?  Not in a million years.
 
Granny In The Bed is a reporter on the Interwebs.  She is noted for being very old and confined to her bed.
 

 http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21570671-archives-could-last-thousands-years-when-stored-dna-instead-magnetic

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